Linux

Linux is a basic programme originally created for data processing functions at ENCOM International. He was eventually transferred to the TRON System in 1984, and after losing his user he was corrupted and became a member of C.L.U. 2's regime. After C.L.U.'s deresolution, Linux vowed to take over his revolution against the users. Currently he resides in the Outlands at the edge of the System, where his repurposed guards have taken over many settlements. Sam Flynn has been trying to delete Linux from the outside, but his crafty scheming and use of blockades and cryptic passwords has kept his lair undiscovered.

Early History
Linux was created by Melvin Giovanni, an ENCOM programmer, in late 1983. His user created him to work in tandem with another programme called Zuse. Within the ENCOM Mainframe, Linux and Zuse worked together under the direction of Nexus at the Central Processing Unit for many cycles. in 1984, Kevin Flynn copied them into his experimental TRON System where they continued their work for some time. In 1986, however, both programmes lost their users when they moved to different companies. Zuse, who was liked by Kevin Flynn, had the oportunity to become a lightcycle operator. Linux, however was steadily forgotten and eventually became jealous and bitter.

When C.L.U. staged his coup d'etat against Kevin Flynn, Linux readily joined his forces and became a lieutenant in C.L.U.'s black guard. Linux liked to believe that he was one of C.L.U.'s right hand men, but this was a megolomanic delusion as C.L.U. barely acknowledged Linux's existence. While C.L.U. built up his army and headed for the Portal to access the real world, Linux and a batallion of about 50 programmes were left behind to look over TRON City. This batallion was essentially the programmes that C.L.U. didn't think were worthy enough to travel to the Portal, but Linux was loath to believe this.

After C.L.U.'s army was destroyed by C.L.U. and Kevin Flynn's reintergration, Linux and his batallion where the only corrupted programmes left in the system. Following the explosion, they immediately fled to the Outlands to hide.

System Restitution
As Sam Flynn created a crusade of security programmes to restore the system to it's original settings, Linux and his battalion hid unnoticed in the Outlands for hundreds of cycles. This gave Linux plenty of time to plot his next move. Linux first started his advance against the system by attacking and taking over several outlaying communities one by one. Programmes that survived these attacks were repurposed and added to his guard and growing settlement. Eventually, Linux was able to create his own Game Grid, where he weeded out weak programmes and found stronger ones to draft into his ranks and repurpose.

Tron
Several hundred cycles after the resoration of the System began, Linux and his two henchmen, Lexar and Aix, found a programme washed up on the shore of the Sea of Simulation. After awakening the programme and getting it on its feet it proved to be Tron who had fallen into the Sea after overcoming C.L.U.'s reprogramming and saving Sam Flynn, Kevin Flynn, and Quorra. Linux, who now despised Tron for his "traitorous" act, took him prisoner and planned to use him as a means to get Sam Flynn back in the System so he could destory him.

News of Alivia Flynn
A few milicycles after capturing Tron, Linux made way to the nearby WiFi portal where his Internet programme informant, Jeeves, awaited him with new. Jeeves informed Linux that he had passed through several news websites and discovered that Sam Flynn's daughter, Alivia, had gone missing and was last seen with her middle school math teacher, "Mr. Castor". Jeeves showed Linux an image of this teacher and it proved to be Zuse, who had somehow escaped deresolution to the Real World. Jeeves also showed Linux a Los Angeles Times article that indicated Sam Flynn had called off the police in search of his daughter. This lead Linux to believe that Alivia was on the Grid with Zuse. Thus he plotted to kidnap her in order to get Sam Flynn on the Grid as well.